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Compassionate Times Newsletter

It's time for another edition of our Compassionate Times newsletter! In this newsletter, you'll find exciting information about our accomplishments, popular events, and recent campaigns, as well as get a glimpse of how your donations and our volunteers have helped make a difference in the lives of thousands of animals. You'll also find a recipe, restaurant review, and an exclusive interview with Sarah Kramer (author of How It All Vegan).

Thanks to all of our hard-working volunteers and generous supporters, CAA has been able to make this past season a strong one for positive social change and animal awareness!

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Volunteer of the Month: Carolyn Soley

Carolyn Soley is a vegan high school senior from West St. Paul who is taking classes at the University of Minnesota. She works as a mosaic artist during the summer, and volunteers throughout the school year. In addition to volunteering with CAA, she also works with Big Brothers Big Sisters, the National Honor Society, and the ALS Association.

Carolyn has only been volunteering for CAA since September, but she has already accomplished a lot. Her main involvement is working as the group's leafleting coordinator-finding good leafleting opportunities, organizing leafleting volunteers, and much more. In addition to her work as leafleting coordinator, Carolyn also successfully secured funding for CAA from the University of Minnesota's Student Services Fees and also helps out with other small--but no less important--tasks such as staffing different CAA events.

As for her views on the animal advocacy movement, Carolyn hopes that "over the next hundred years things get better and better, and change completely." She says "having an outlet" to work toward this change keeps her from getting too angry about the way animals are currently treated and viewed.

Feel inspired? Fill out a volunteer application today!

New Investigation: Maine Egg Farm

The latest investigation by Mercy for Animals... "A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals shocking abuse at New England's largest egg factory farm - Quality Egg of New England (QENE) in Turner, Maine. The hidden camera video shot in early 2009 gives a startling glimpse behind the closed doors of one of the nation's leading egg producers, exposing the rotten truth behind battery cage egg production - heinous cruelty to animals.

Some of the things MFA's investigation reveals include:

• Rotting carcasses in cages with live hens still laying eggs for human consumption.
• Workers and managers killing birds by grabbing their necks and swinging them around in circles - an attempt to break their necks which often resulted in prolonged, torturous deaths for the hens.
• Supervisors and workers throwing live birds into trash cans, leaving them to be slowly crushed under the weight of other birds' corpses and unable to access food or water.
• Birds suffering from broken bones, bloody open wounds, and untreated infections.
• Management and workers callously kicking live hens into manure pits where they either drowned in liquid feces or likely died slow and painful deaths from illness, injury or starvation.

Numerous veterinarians and animal welfare experts have harshly condemned the conditions documented at QENE. Dr. Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's leading expert on farmed-animal welfare and an advisor to the USDA, stated "[T]he place is a filthy, disgusting mess and very poorly maintained."

The findings of MFA's newest investigation are similar to those documented at numerous egg farms across the country in recent years - illustrating that animal neglect and abuse are the egg industry standard, not the exception.

As consumers we can choose to support kindness over cruelty at each meal. Adopting a compassionate vegan diet is one of the best actions we can take to prevent needless animal suffering and end the conditions documented during this investigation."

Learn more and watch the investigation footage.